Rome - That's Me

Sometimes one person changes the course of history, becomes a legend in their lifetime, and after death becomes an unattainable model to emulate. Sometimes truly epic characters are born into the world, and one of them is Julius Caesar, a multifaceted and complex figure, a defender of the people and a fighter against elites, who turned into a dictator and paid with his life for his ambition for power. However, in 77 BC, Rome does not yet know how important this young man will be for the state. And the unscrupulous and cruel senator Dolabella, the former governor of Macedonia, preparing to stand trial, is not nervous at all: it seems that the inexperienced twenty-three-year-old accuser named Gaius Julius Caesar poses no threat whatsoever...
Santiago Posteguillo, a philologist and linguist, a meticulous researcher and energetic storyteller, the author of historical bestsellers devoted to the history of Ancient Rome, has spent his whole life preparing to write a series about Julius Caesar. "I felt that I had to earn the right to write about him," he says. "Rome - That's Me," a courtroom thriller that John Grisham would enjoy, and a colorful fresco in the best traditions of the historical novel genre, is the first book in the series, focusing on a little-known episode in Caesar's biography. Here, Caesar, still a young man, faces defeats - and yet emerges victorious, gaining recognition from the masses for the first time. Here, battles fought two thousand years ago boil again, and the orators who compete in rhetoric, which we learn to this day, come to life. Here, the hearts of people whose biographies are studied by schoolchildren and academics are once again full of tenderness and passion, while the lives of those who fight for justice are, as it has been since time immemorial, once again threatened.